The winner of the 2012 Dynamic Billiards European Open 2012 is Nick van den Berg from The Netherlands. He defeated Fabio Petroni (ITA) with 11:5 in the final match.
The final was probably the most entertaining match of the whole tournament. Both players demonstrated pool billiards to its perfection. However, van den Berg had the better break shot and his game seemed to be a bit more consistent than Petroni's. And it was proven to be true. In the 12th rack, Petroni made no ball on the break and van den Berg ran that rack and his next one and took a three-point lead over Petroni. The Italian never recovered from that and in the end could not win one more rack. 11:5 was the final result for van den Berg who not only won this event but also finished this season as the #1 ranked player on the Euro-Tour rankings.
"In the beginning of the season, I set a goal to myself: I really wanted to win this Tour this year", said van den Berg, "I finished third last year and second the year before so I had this goal throughout the season." "In the beginning of this tournament, David and Albin had a good lead on me so I knew I had to reach at least the semi-final or even final in order to win the Tour." "I played very good in the final and I figured out the break shot. While most of the other players struggled with it, I knew how to break. That probably made the difference in tis final match as well".
Top eight finishers Dynamic Billiards European Open:
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Name |
Nation |
Points |
Money |
|
1. |
Nick van den Berg |
NED |
550 |
7.000,-€ |
|
2. |
Fabio Petroni |
ITA |
480 |
4.000,-€ |
|
3. |
David Alcaide |
ESP |
420 |
3.000,-€ |
|
|
Radoslaw Babica |
POL |
420 |
3.000,-€ |
|
5. |
Tomasz Kaplan |
POL |
370 |
2.000,-€ |
|
|
Albin Ouschan |
AUT |
370 |
2.000,-€ |
|
|
Marc Bijsterbosch |
NED |
370 |
2.000,-€ |
|
|
Karlo Dalmatin |
CRO |
370 |
2.000,-€ |
Top Ten Euro-Tour Final Ranking 2012:
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1. |
Nick van den Berg |
NED |
2440 |
|
2. |
David Alcaide |
ESP |
2350 |
|
3. |
Albin Ouschan |
AUT |
2335 |
|
4. |
Dominic Jentsch |
GER |
2175 |
|
5. |
Nikos Ekonomopoulos |
GRE |
2170 |
|
6. |
Mark Gray |
GBR |
2155 |
|
7. |
Daryl Peach |
GBR |
2085 |
|
8. |
Oliver Ortmann |
GER |
2080 |
|
9. |
Dimitri Jungo |
SUI |
2060 |
|
10. |
Chris Melling |
GBR |
2035 |
That concludes the coverage of the Dynamic Billiards European Open 2012. The women's Euro-Tour will continue tomorrow morning at 09:30 CET.
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